Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-01-27
TIE WEST.

TIE WEST.
J. j. UPcHURCH, founder OF the Ancient
Order of United Workmen, died at his home
in Steeleville. Mo-, on the 18th, at the age
of s1xty-seven years He founded the first
lodge of the above order in Meadville, Pa,
in 1868.
SToCKBRIDGE, Republican, has been cleo
| ted to the Senate by the Michigan Legisla-
ture.
| UNITED STATES troops have had trouble
1 with wood thieves in Oklahoma. party
that persisted in going into the prohibited
| territory was fired on and arrested, one man
being shot through the hand.
FIRE in Terre Haute, Ind, recently de-
\ stroyed the main building of the Terre
Haute distillery and caused the death OF
Waterman James Nugent. The loss was
| 500, Coo insurance, SO, 600.
! CAPTAIN GEORGE E. LEMON had received
up to the 18th SAT, O69 for the Logan fund.
| The mortgages on the estate aggregate s3o,
! 600.
For months past farmers in the vicinity
| of Chatham, Ill, have been complaining of
| heavy losses of sheep by wolves, one far
| mer reporting the killing of sixteen sheep,
valued at 500, in one night, others having
suffered almost equally severe losses.
THE recount of votes in the contested
| election case at Indianapolis of Irwin, Re
| publican, for criminal judge, against Ayers,
| coroner, against Morrison, Democrat, has
terminated in favor of the Republicans.
THE Supreme Court of Indiana has de-
| clared the Dow liquor tax law constitu-
tional and applicable to wholesale dealers.
A LARGE panther has been seen time and
| again in the Illinois river bottom, about five
miles from Tahlequah, I. T. Many sheep,
| hogs and calves have been devoured by this
| animal during the last year.
THE boiler that SuDDlieQ the dry house of
Preston Riders stave factory at Crothers-
| vile, Ind, blew up the other day, killing
! Henry Millin and Archie Warner. Another
employee had his foot broken to pieces. The
boiler, weighing 5000 pounds, was hurled
125 feet.
A TELEGRAM from Dakota announces the
loss in blizzard of c. B. Buck and his son
| Herman, of Sturgis, Mich, and Mr.. Davis,
at whose house they were stopping.
| THE Minnesota Legislature elected c. K.
| Davis United States Senator to succeed Mr..
! Mcmillan.
| A FIRE which started in Evans & Co.. IS
shoe store burned six blocks at Alliance, o.,
recently. Loss, $4,000; fairly insured.
GEORGE KIEFER, of Milwaukee, has been
| acquitted of. murder in killing rough who
| beat him and his wife.
| FIRE in Jerseyville, Ill, recently de-
stroyed seven brick buildings and their
| contents, causing a loss of &c., 600 on which
| the insurance was $4,000.
| SHANNON's Bank, Terre Haute, Ind, es-
tahlished in 1885, closed it's doors on the
| 10th. Its liabilities aggregated S39, 600 and
! its assets $4,000
| AN abortive attempt to rob train on
the Chicago d Alton near Independence,
| Mo, took place on the night of the 10Th.
DIR. JOHN RITTER, wholesale manufac-
| turer of drugs and chemicals, Chicago, has
| been temporarily restrained from using
the Carlsbad mineral spring trade mark at
| the suit of the Austrian Government
! THE chairmakers were in convention in
| Chicago recently.
NINE wolves were killed recently in a
grand hunt in Douglas County, Ill.
THE citizenship court at Tahlequah, I. T..
| has cited quite lot of persons claiming
! rights in the Nation to answer to the
charges of having by fraud, bribery and
otherwise secured their rights contrary to
| law. 1t is the general talk that some in
order to get their claims through former
commissions and courts, paid as high as
$1,000. Several cattlemen are on the black
| list, and some interesting developments are
! expected.
HEARST has been elected United States
| Senator for California.
The dressed-beef shippers of Chicago
have demanded a classified rate east.
The lower house of the Illinois Assembly
has passed bill appropriating $4,000 for
the erection of monument to General John
| A. Logan at Chicago.